Originally Posted by
Anubis
Hey there! I'm fairly new to studying blackjack (a few weeks). While browsing around some other fourms, I came across a comment by someone that the ration of standard deviation to amount won per hour for a playing strategy should ideally be between 10 to 15. As an example, if your win per hour with a given strategy is $20/hour, the standard deviation should ideally be no more than $300/hour.
I hadn't read this anywhere else, so I wanted to see what people here thought. Do you think the ratio of standard deviation to winnings per hour does matter, as with the comment above? Or, as long as ROR is below your desired threshold (1%, 2%, whatever percent you want), does that ratio not really matter? Software I'm using to plan my first trip get me ROR below 1% with a ratio of standard deviation to winnings per hour of about 34, and ROR below 3% with a ratio of standard deviation to per hour of about 28, so if this ratio does matter I might need to plan more.
Bookmarks